I’ve spent most of the last two weeks compiling paperwork for my ARCP (annual review of competency progression), which replaced the old SpR RITAs [records of in-training assessments] when MMC […]
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Anna Donald starts unpacking
We moved. We are now living between piles of boxes and unpacked, random items: spoons; piles of sports socks; a wooden statue made from a tree in Oxford; the iron; […]
Deborah Cohen: I want great care
We’re used to checking out the internet for the lowdown on our holiday destinations or theatre review, but what about finding yourself a good doc? Tapping into the government’s Choice […]
Trevor Jackson: Is there an unbiased doctor in the house?
It was perhaps inevitable that a list of up to 100 experts untainted by drug industry money might get people talking. Questions such as why is so-and-so on it or […]
Anna Donald goes to Tasmania
Apparently, we are moving to our new apartment on Thursday. Only we haven’t completed the sale as planned, on Monday. This is our fault, sort of. The bank didn’t send […]
Richard Smith: What do you want your care home to be like?
At a conference I attended recently we were all asked to think about what kind of care home we would like. This was a truly shocking question. It was a […]
David Payne: Videos and blogs
As I write this my boss is discussing video on bmj.com with other senior colleagues, mainly to see if we should commit to providing more embedded video clips alongside news, […]
Siddhartha Yadav: Doctors’ involvement in torture
My attention was drawn to a story in yesterday’s Guardian newspaper about alleged abuse of eleven Iraqis by British soldiers, coming less than a month after the BMJ covered a […]
Anna Donald: Funerals and hairstyles
Oh dear. I’ve just been to another funeral. The third one this year. Death swirls its big mysterious cloaks around us (what colour? black? rainbow? purple?), sweeping change to all […]
Domhnall MacAuley: Primary care and the President
Everyone is an expert in primary care. Newsagents, bar staff, waiters, hairdressers and little old ladies laden with shopping all have their own view. In the anonymity of a city […]